Robert Vadra-DLF deal: Khemka criticizes probe’s plodding pace, and Verma responds
Ashok Khemka, Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Printing and Stationery, blasted the sluggish investigation into the DLF-Robert Vadra transaction today.
He commented on X, criticizing the Haryana BJP administration, asking why the Vadra-DLF transaction inquiry was moving slowly. Ten years have passed. How long do we still have to wait. Additionally placed on “thande baste mein” (backburner) is the Dhingra Commission report. Sinners enjoy themselves. “Why is the ruler’s intention weak?” he continued. The Prime Minister’s 2014 pledge to the nation had to be taken into consideration once.
Sanjeev Verma, the Divisional Commissioner of Rohtak, made a jab at him. He said, “People begin to count other people’s sins in an attempt to cover up their own shortcomings, but they forget that doing so does not make them pure or innocent.” “Auron Ko Budhiya Seekh Veekh De, Apni Khaat Bhitari Le” is a proverb for such individuals, he said. It means “the old lady will teach others but will take her cot inside.”
In 2022, Khemka and Verma filed complaints against one another about recruiting at the Haryana State Warehousing Corporation. Previously, Verma had made disparaging remarks about Khemka’s postings on X.
On September 1, 2018, at the Kherki Daula police station in Gurugram, a DLF-Vadra deal case was filed against Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Onkareshwar Properties, and Sky Light Hospitality Pvt Ltd for charges of fraud, forgery, criminal conspiracy, and violation of the Prevention of Corruption Act. On October 15, 2012, Khemka, the Director of Consolidation of Land Holdings at the time, issued an order canceling the land mutation; however, the order was never carried out.
The Justice SN Dhingra Commission was originally established by the BJP administration to look into the issue, but due to procedural errors, the high court invalidated the commission’s findings.
In 2008, Sky Light was given a commercial license to establish a colony on 2.701 acres in Sector 83, under Hooda’s Congress administration. In 2012, Sky Light paid Rs 58 crore to DLF for the 3.53 acres that included the permitted area.
